Chapter 1966 Siege
While Te Guzhe was still halfway, he suddenly knelt and couldn't wait to launch a new round of attack on Wuping Prefecture City.
Shi Shi suddenly used thousands of craftsmen to work day and night, and seized the time to produce siege weapons. Without special designers, siege weapons were naturally very simple, but they were enough to pose a huge threat to the city.
Under the hostage of the Yi barbarian cavalry, a large number of strong men cut down trees day and night. In order to have enough stones, half of them were divided into nearby stone mountains to mine them to the city.
The Heavenly Palace was originally built near the stone mountain. Although the Heavenly Palace was burned by a fire, a large number of huge rocks remained. In addition, near the Heavenly Palace, a huge stone mountain has become a mining place. A large number of stones are transported to the sky, and a large number of strong men fall down every day.
The Yi barbarians were not sufficient in food. Although they were threatened by the Northwest Army, in order to continue to replenish supplies, Shi Shi sent troops to collect food and grass everywhere.
Before the entire army of Shuchitai was wiped out, all tribes were rushing to collect food and grass. The ability to draw long tags for collecting food and grass was enough to make the Yi Barbarians excited. However, the entire army of thousands of troops was wiped out, which still greatly shocked the Yi Barbarian tribes. Now anyone who draws long tags for robbing food will be scolded for a while.
The food supply only to the barbarians is a bit insufficient, so it is natural that it is impossible to distribute food from it to tens of thousands of prisoners. Except for the thousands of craftsmen who can also receive thin food that can survive every day, most of the prisoners have no food to satisfy their hunger. They are too hungry and can only swallow the snow in big mouthfuls to relieve hunger.
Even so, under the super labor, countless exhausted prisoners fell down every day. For this reason, the Yi barbarians also dug several large pits nearby, but some people fell down, regardless of their life or death, as long as they could not get up again, they dragged people into the pit. In just a few days, several pits were filled with corpses. Fortunately, in winter, the corpses would not smell bad or spread plague.
Although Shi Khan issued an order that each team would produce at least five siege weapons every day, it was easy to make ladders, while siege cars and stone throwing cars were not easy. It was already the limit for a team to produce three siege cars or stone throwing cars every day.
After five days, I worked day and night, and made more than fifty stone throwing cars, more than ten siege cars, and more were ladders to climb the city.
The production of cloud ladders is much simpler, but in a few days, more than 200 cloud ladders were made.
Suddenly, he was anxious. Seeing that many siege weapons were made, they could not wait any longer. At dusk, they finally mobilized their troops and launched a powerful offensive.
In order to disperse the power of defending the city, Tu Shihan did not persistently attack only one city gate this time, but divided tens of thousands of soldiers into three groups, and launched an attack on Wuping Prefecture City from the east, west and north. Due to the limited number of stone casting cars, Tu Shihan felt that if the stone casting cars were dispersed, its attack effectiveness would be greatly reduced. Therefore, although the ladder was divided into three parts, and many soldiers and horses were given on both sides of the east and west, and even allocated a small number of siege cars, the stone casting cars were still concentrated in the north, and the north city was still the main attack direction.
Before attacking the city, Chu Shihan asked his soldiers to test it after the first stone throwing cart was made. At the beginning, it was difficult to master the trick. Either it was wrong or too weak or too heavy, it could not hit the target just right. Chu Shihan specially called out a group of elite barbarian soldiers to practice using the stone throwing cart day and night. After a few days, although it was not very skillful in operation, it could be generally controlled, and the deviations would not be too large.
At dusk, the sound of the ox-horn charge echoed lowly between heaven and earth. The Yi barbarians began to attack Wuping Prefecture from three sides. Because of the weapons in hand, in the eyes of most Yi barbarian soldiers, this time the siege was almost certain. Even if the defenders in the city were strong, the "Qin" flag at the top of Wuping Prefecture would have fallen before dawn tomorrow.
The roar like a tsunami sounded from the east and west, and the earth shook.
Shi Khan suddenly rode on the horse and stared coldly at the magnificent city in the distance that ruined countless barbarian soldiers. Although his face was cold, he was quite excited. He could not wait to rush into the city to massacre.
He had been waiting for a long time, but this time he was full of confidence.
The offensives on both sides had begun, and in the north city, Chu Shihan did not rush to let his cavalry rush over, but lined up dozens of stone-throwing chariots. Behind the stone-throwing chariots were more than ten Yi barbarian cavalry who were ready for battle, and many soldiers were carrying the ladders. When Chu Shihan gave his order, they were about to flock out.
The stone-throwing car finally started the offensive.
When dozens of stone-throwing cars were launched together, dozens of huge stones roared towards the heavy city like meteorites outside the sky, but Shihan was very impressed by the people of the Central Plains.
The whistling giant rocks drew a graceful arc in the air and smashed towards the city one by one. Although half of the giant rocks had not yet arrived at the edge of the city, several giant rocks crossed the city and fell into the city, but many still hit the city walls and several fell on the city.
The huge rock hit the city wall and immediately broke into a pit.
The stone throwing cart did not stop. After throwing it, someone immediately carried a huge rock to fill it on the stone throwing cart. It took at least four or five people to lift a huge rock.
When the Yi barbarians in the North City used stone-throwing chariots to attack the city, the Yi barbarians on both sides had already launched a fierce attack on the city.
The Yi Barbarians are now much smarter, with multiple teams covering each other. In the midst of the attack, arrows were like rain, suppressing the defenders on the citytop so that they could not raise their heads. The confident Yi Barbarian soldiers were capable of riding and shooting. In the rain of arrows, soldiers from time to time were caught on the top of the citytop and fell from the citytop.
Although there are archers fighting back at the top of the city wall, the power of the counterattack is extremely weak.
There were less than 3,000 real elite soldiers guarding Wuping Prefecture City. Moreover, as the focus of the enemy's attack, half of the guards were arranged at the north city. Dingwu had long thought that the Yi barbarian soldiers would divide their troops to attack the city from other city gates, so the remaining half of the guards were distributed in other city gates.
Although tens of thousands of strong men were recruited in the city, and these strong men were also assigned to the city gates, with insufficient troops, the real soldiers, except for the North Gate, were only a few hundred people in the other gates.
These guards are the main force in defending the city. The enemy rushed over, tens of thousands, and they were all good at riding and shooting. The opponent's layer after layer of arrows poured in like heavy rain. Hundreds of soldiers on the top of the city shot and counterattacked, which was indeed difficult to cause fatal damage to the enemy.
Under the weak power of the enemy, the Yi barbarians easily rushed to the city. They obviously tasted the sweetness of arrows suppressing their opponents. The Yi barbarians kept raining arrows. The Yi barbarians carrying the ladder found a gap. Under the cover of the cavalry, they were already shouting and rushed to the city. Although most of the Yi barbarians did not know how to operate the stone throwing chariot, they did not need anyone to teach how to use the ladder. Dozens of ladders were already laid on the city wall. With the shouts of killing, the Yi barbarians rushed to climb the ladder and rushed to the top of the city.
Seeing that his companions had already begun to climb the ladder, in order to avoid shooting one's own people, the archer's arrow suddenly slowed down. At this moment, he heard the sound of drums in the city, and the rumbling drums soared into the sky. In the drums, countless heads emerged from the city, and then he saw countless people holding big and small stones and smashing them down from the city.
The Yi barbarians let the defenders see the sharpness of arrow rain, and at this time the defenders also began to let the Yi barbarians know the ruthlessness of stones. The defenders obviously stored enough stones on the top of the city, and the rocks fell like rain. The dense crowds of Yi barbarians crowded under the city screamed in pain under the falling rocks, with a large number of people. They wanted to dodge for a while but couldn't dodge them.
At this time, the Yi barbarians only hoped that their companions on the ladder could quickly climb to the city. As long as they could suppress the enemies at the city and prevent them from throwing stones, the people behind could climb to the city one after another.
The Yi barbarians, who were still some distance away from the city wall, watched the defenders at the city wall smash down with stones, bent their bows and arrows, found the right target and shot them, and cooperated with their companions to climb to the city.
Suddenly, many Yi barbarian soldiers saw that many people on the top of the city raised the wooden barrels and poured them down according to the cloud ladders mounted on the city wall. The liquid splashed from the wooden barrels not only poured on the cloud ladders, but also on the Yi barbarian soldiers who were climbing the city.
Many Yi barbarians were puzzled and wondered if there was insufficient stones in the city and their opponents wanted to resist with cold water. However, before they thought about it, they saw countless torches suddenly appearing on the top of the city. Some people were surprised that the sky was not dark yet. Why did the defenders lit the torches so early, but they saw that the torches on the top of the city were thrown down towards the ladder. Almost in an instant, the ladder was suddenly ignited and spread rapidly. The Yi barbarians who had liquid sprinkled on their bodies were also covered with raging fire in a moment.
The Yi barbarians finally understood that what the defenders poured was not water, but oil. The torches stuck to the cloud ladder, and the fire burned out as soon as they were touched by the cloud ladder. Countless soldiers who were climbing on the cloud ladder were immediately swallowed by the fire. With screams, they fell from mid-air, like fireballs pouring down from the air.
When the Yi barbarians squeezed under the city saw the scene above, they opened their eyes widened. The tincture oil on the top of the city was poured down, and countless Yi barbarians were poured on their bodies. The cold winter was cold, and before they could cry out, the fire had already spread under the city. Amid the shrill screams, the defenders at the city seemed to feel that their strength was not enough. They carried the horizontal wood from the top of the city and threw it down. The horizontal wood was already stained with tincture oil. It fell down and it immediately killed a piece of it. The horizontal wood burned instantly. In just a moment, there was a sea of fire under the city.
When the Yi barbarians following behind saw this scene, they were frightened. Before, they attacked the city, and the other party simply used bows and arrows and fell rocks to deal with it. The Yi barbarians always thought that the other party had only these two tricks.
Now it seems that the Qin army is still too cunning. They have never used such a killer move before. Perhaps because their fuel is too scarce, they took it out until today. Most of the ladders that were finally made have been swallowed up by fire. There are only a few ladders left. Although the Yi barbarians were still climbing up, the city was still smashed down with cross-bows and falling rocks.
They not only used bows and arrows to defend the city, but also stones, wood, and tincture oil. These are not only diverse, but also have great lethality.
The Yi barbarians watched their sharp siege weapon burning in the fire, but they were helpless. These ladders took several days to make and consumed a lot of manpower. However, this short time was destroyed. Some Yi barbarians even sighed in their hearts that the ladders were siege weapons that the people of the Central Plains thought of, and of course they also figured out how to crack such weapons.
Although most of the ladders were destroyed, the Yi barbarians were certainly unwilling to retreat like this. Although the ladders were destroyed, they still had siege cars in their hands.
In fact, when the Yi barbarians charged, not only were the ladders coming up, but several siege cars were also pushed up.
The siege car is full of solid protective gear, the front end is cut wood, and the outside of the wood is covered with a layer of iron armor, which is used for collision.
Although the city gate is wide, two siege vehicles have occupied the entire city gate. One siege vehicle requires more than a dozen people to push it. At this moment, the siege vehicle has been pushed under the city gate. In order to prevent the huge rocks falling from falling from the city, the Yi barbarians strictly protected the soldiers pushing the siege vehicle. There were a circle of Yi barbarian soldiers holding shields on the side. Each Yi barbarian soldier held two shields, one on one side to protect himself, and the other on the other side to protect the heads of the chariot soldiers to protect their companions.
The Yi barbarians did not stop their attack. Although most of the ladders were destroyed, the Yi barbarians still climbed up with the help of the remaining ladders. In addition, the Yi barbarians still used their usual tricks and climbed up with hooks. Their purpose was very simple. They launched an attack along the entire city wall. They had enough personnel, far exceeding the soldiers guarding the city. Although the soldiers guarding the city were condescending, they had to defend the entire defense line. However, if they were a little negligent, they could find a gap by the Yi barbarians to climb to the top of the city.
They used this attack method to disperse the troops of the defenders at the city gate to the maximum extent, and the pressure would be reduced when attacking the companions at the city gates.
They had used hook ropes to launch countless attacks before, but they returned in a desperate situation. This time they had never thought that they could really use hook ropes to break through the city, but they placed all their hopes on those siege cars. As long as the siege cars could break open the city gate and the army rushed in, the defenders could do nothing more.
Chapter completed!